Odisha Calling: Economic augmentation
through Agro-Tourism
Rural India as well
as Odisha needs an multitalented development for reducing extensive poverty,
increased rural economic activities, boosting global agricultural competition
and also towards building a strong
economic growth for the land by creating and supplementing highly potential
Indian agriculture sector with the tourism growth. It is very much required to
operationalize a systematic and overall development sectorial plan with twin
goal of employment generation and financial growth. Fusion and development of
tourism sector with the rural economy can bring a win-win situation for Odisha
the Agro with lesser extra funding and activity addition .
An apex team of
frontline agro tourism professionals is needed directions and guidance in this
regards and sectorial excellency ; keep interest in creating a structured and
systematic human resource management plan-outlay for Agro Tourism through
involving local native communities in a rural setting. The policy planners should look forward deeply
and heartily to inspire and promote innovations for developing local
communities’ like Selp Help Group, Women Groups , Club members, Societies and
also increase preparedness for the tourism sector by focusing on certain
suggestive core strategies for Agro Tourism in Odisha. It should be taken as an
primary instrument for growth of underdeveloped, developing and rural areas.
Servicing the tourism sector with trained and skilled manpower becomes
imperative and challenge for the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-2017) for the
development of more decentralized and agro based rural tourism destinations.
This should include
following most vital and primary items::
1. Policy
framework : pro-poor tourism development policy is to be ready to chalk-out the
rural and weaker areas equitably all across the state, defining of various
rural tourism circuits, introducing incentives schemes and subsidising
investments for prosperity of
potentiality.
2. Establishing training and development
tourism trust funds: various
Community-based and community-driven, these trusts are to be established to put forward about local
tourism development in the hands of the local communities themselves on public
private partnership with the various government regulators.
3. Identifying the focused current and future
skills and training needs through developing an industry orientated training
strategy, designing and developing job specific training programs for promoting careers in agro tourism,
promoting various industry participation, engagement in training opportunities.
4. Focusing
on the youth mass - By creating opportunities for the most talented local youth
manpower by adopting a multi-disciplinary process with regard to career
development opportunities. We have to remove cultural and social barriers that
can prevent young people from working.
5. Establishing
occupational skills capacity building activities for tour operators,
hospitality- accommodations management, cuisine preparation, sectorial guides
and transportation
6. Develop
a frame work in the state for sustain and long term existence of Agro Tourism
in the rural and.
7. Regular
touch with NGOs, UN Organizations should be required. In each potential
area at least one pilot project has to be developed and make it as a show
piece for others in each identified rural / underdeveloped areas for all
states.
Practically
rural India holds the key to vibrant economic development, reduction of
regional imbalances and disparities, poverty reduction, enormous employment
generation and. The future does belongs to the rise of new economic giant
powers , India being tom-tomed as the favourite super power with empowered Gram
Udaya- Bharat Uday means prosperity with Rural.